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Bringing the Millennium Development Goals
to Communities in
South Asia
23/03/2007
United
Nations HABITAT & CITYNET
Kathmandu
LETTER
 March 23,
2007
Dear Friends,
I have just returned from Kathmandu, where UNHABITAT and CITYNET
(representing the 67 major cities of Asia and Europe) convened the
intensive training by me and my associate Margaret Rubin of leaders
from 12 Asian countries (Taiwan, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India,
Bangladesh, Nepal, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Viet Nam, the Philippines,
and Afghanistan.)
These were
the real leaders of the countries- i.e., the mayors of the largest
cities of Asia, the managers of the majors systems of water,
habitation, governance, ecology, gender equality, education, the
proponents of the millennium development goals. We applied the
principles of social artistry to solving hitherto impossible problems.
The response was very gratifying, even with the very short time of
several days which we were given to do virtually impossible
things.
For the
first time, many of these leaders felt new hope and significant ideas
as well as new partnerships, and even felt themselves grown--probably
because much had shifted within themselves with regard to seeing new
ways of being, doing, advancing programs and projects. Lowie
Rosales and Bernardia Chandra Devi (the director of CITYNET) now want
the program to expand considerably, especially throughout Asia.
Social Artistry is truly on the map now as an important key to whole
system transition.
Regards,
Dr.
Jean Houston
-
 Press Release - Bright
New Leaders Emerge in Albania (March 2004)
- Press Release - Launching Social
Artistry in Nepal (May 2005)
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